Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical PerspectiveJoyce Appleby, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, Allison Sneider This comprehensive reader chronicles the western engagement with the nature of knowledge during the past four centuries while providing the historical context for the postmodernist thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty and Hayden White, and the challenges their ideas have posed to our conventional ways of thinking, writing and knowing. |
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... laws . He believed that mathematics provided a certain foundation for all metaphysical thinking and that scientists could accurately predict what would happen in the external world . His thorough skepticism , elaborated by others ...
... laws . He believed that mathematics provided a certain foundation for all metaphysical thinking and that scientists could accurately predict what would happen in the external world . His thorough skepticism , elaborated by others ...
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... laws of the state , but " on the contrary , subjected the state to its own laws . " 5 Whereas Christian divines and political philosophers alike had depicted the state of nature as a horrible place where , in Hobbes's words , " life was ...
... laws of the state , but " on the contrary , subjected the state to its own laws . " 5 Whereas Christian divines and political philosophers alike had depicted the state of nature as a horrible place where , in Hobbes's words , " life was ...
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... laws . Like a new modern litany , historians invoked the power of tendencies , processes , developments , objective forces , and dominant ideas to explain the momentum of change overtaking Europe , the United States , and most of the ...
... laws . Like a new modern litany , historians invoked the power of tendencies , processes , developments , objective forces , and dominant ideas to explain the momentum of change overtaking Europe , the United States , and most of the ...
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... laws lay hid in night , God said , ' Let Newton be ! ' and all was light . ” -Alexander Pope As the historian Norman Hampson has pointed out , Pope exaggerated . ' Not all was light , but in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many ...
... laws lay hid in night , God said , ' Let Newton be ! ' and all was light . ” -Alexander Pope As the historian Norman Hampson has pointed out , Pope exaggerated . ' Not all was light , but in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many ...
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... laws could be revealed to all . Any clear - minded observer or subject , it seemed , could focus on the distinct ... law of universal gravity did not remain inert , trapped within the covers of books and the shelves of archives . They ...
... laws could be revealed to all . Any clear - minded observer or subject , it seemed , could focus on the distinct ... law of universal gravity did not remain inert , trapped within the covers of books and the shelves of archives . They ...
Contents
29 | |
JOHN LOCKE | 50 |
ADAM SMITH | 61 |
IMMANUEL KANT | 105 |
ERNST CASSIRER | 123 |
Introduction | 137 |
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE | 145 |
KARL MARX | 164 |
JOHN DEWEY | 265 |
RUTH BENEDICT | 279 |
CLAUDE LÉVISTRAUSS | 296 |
CLIFFORD GEERTZ | 309 |
MAX HORKHEIMER AND THEODOR ADORNO | 324 |
Introduction | 385 |
HAYDEN WHITE | 393 |
Introduction | 489 |
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE | 189 |
MAX WEBER | 213 |
NORMAN BIRNBAUM | 245 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 555 |
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